Karolina Wydra (Polish pronunciation: [karÉ"ˈlina vɨdra]; born March
, ) is a Polish-American actress and model. She played Dominika
Petrova on the Fox medical drama series House, and vampire Violet
Mazurski on the HBO dark fantasy series True Blood. Wydra has starred
in the fantasy thriller After (), and the science fiction film Europa
Report (). She portrayed Detective Dianne Kubek on ABC's short-lived
crime drama series Wicked City and recurred as Izel in Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D.Wydra was born in Opole, Poland with a rare left eye
coloboma birth defect in which the iris of the eye does not grow
closed during gestation.[better source needed]Her mother and father
were teachers of mathematics and art, respectively. In , she and her
family emigrated to Orange County, California, where her parents set
up a cleaning business. Her parents separated in , and her mother
subsequently moved back to Poland.In October , Wydra won the Elite Lee
Jeans Model Look Contest, which was hosted by Roshumba Williams and
Dorian Gregory. She has since appeared in print advertisements for
brands such as Armani Exchange, Levi's Red, Calvin Klein, Smashbox
Cosmetics, Dooney & Bourke, Charles David, Urban Decay, John Frieda,
and Kenneth Cole. Wydra has also appeared as a model on the cover of
the German Elle magazine and Oyster magazine.
, ) is a Polish-American actress and model. She played Dominika
Petrova on the Fox medical drama series House, and vampire Violet
Mazurski on the HBO dark fantasy series True Blood. Wydra has starred
in the fantasy thriller After (), and the science fiction film Europa
Report (). She portrayed Detective Dianne Kubek on ABC's short-lived
crime drama series Wicked City and recurred as Izel in Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D.Wydra was born in Opole, Poland with a rare left eye
coloboma birth defect in which the iris of the eye does not grow
closed during gestation.[better source needed]Her mother and father
were teachers of mathematics and art, respectively. In , she and her
family emigrated to Orange County, California, where her parents set
up a cleaning business. Her parents separated in , and her mother
subsequently moved back to Poland.In October , Wydra won the Elite Lee
Jeans Model Look Contest, which was hosted by Roshumba Williams and
Dorian Gregory. She has since appeared in print advertisements for
brands such as Armani Exchange, Levi's Red, Calvin Klein, Smashbox
Cosmetics, Dooney & Bourke, Charles David, Urban Decay, John Frieda,
and Kenneth Cole. Wydra has also appeared as a model on the cover of
the German Elle magazine and Oyster magazine.
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